Top Quality MTG Cards, Tournament Playable
A recent addition to the best-of-all-time lists, The Wandering Emperor has swiftly risen through the ranks to showcase her power as one of the premier utility planeswalkers available to control and midrange decks. With a combination of disruption and defensive 2/2s, The Wandering Emperor does a great job of managing the board in earlier turns, […]
Karn Liberated is one of the scariest planeswalkers ever printed, principally because you most often have to deal with him on turn three. Any seven-drop is going to punch above its weight when consistently deployed that early, and that’s what Tron decks are all about. Tron isn’t the Tier 1 menace in Modern that it […]
Planeswalkers don’t get a lot of love in EDH. They’re so much worse in a format where there are three hostile combat steps between activations rather than one, as it’s so much easier to get them off the table. Nonetheless, Nicol Bolas, the Ravager has flourished as one of the most popular Grixis commanders. Despite […]
It takes a lot for a card to get restricted in Vintage, but Narset, Parter of Veils is so oppressive in that format in particular that you can only play one copy. The double-Impulse effect is nice, but the real kicker is shutting down opposing card draw while being up two cards yourself. Even after […]
Planeswalkers were first introduced to Magic in Lorwyn, back in 2007. Just like the new card frame, double-faced cards, foils, the introduction of Standard and deck construction rules, they are one of the things that is supposed to have killed Magic. With almost 300 planeswalker cards printed, that death surely must be coming any day […]
Elesh Norn, Mother of Machines has shown us how good a Panharmonicon can be in the command zone already, and Gandalf the White does similar for Legendary permanents and artifacts, while also giving you the extremely powerful ability to play at instant speed. Gandalf arrives precisely when he means to, and he brings some of […]
Very nearly topping the list, Sauron, the Dark Lord brings some unique abilities to the table. First, the real reason for how high he makes it here, is his killer Ward ability. Not many players are going to be willing to sacrifice their powerful legendary permanents, so that Ward is going to act as hexproof […]
Blackless four color decks now have more options than any other four color combination, but Aragorn, the Uniter at least brings some very different play to the table. Caring about the spells you cast, and their colors, is slick, with Aragorn rewarding you with every cast regardless of exactly what color. Sometimes you’ll get all […]
Saruman sits in some interesting design space, which in and of itself shoots him up the list. His Ward effect is surprisingly effective — we’ve seen discard ward costs can sometimes be hard to get over, and this takes that to an extreme. Starting with that protection is all well and good, but the real […]
Anything that enables an archetype will make its way high on my list, and Shelob, Child of Ungoliant enables a popular creature type. There have been other attempts to make spiders work before, but Shelob puts them all substantially to shame. Turning each and every tiny spider bite into a lethal, venomous threat is a […]